Ning arrived back in his cage where the illusion disappeared to show the real him.
The soldiers didn't realize that had happened, and neither did Ning want them to.
He stayed in his cage, thinking to himself how he simply wanted to leave right now. If he disappeared from here, it would cause a commotion, but no one would know who he was, so they wouldn't be able to check him.
However, for some reason, he couldn't let go of the thought of bringing justice to that poor young prince that had to die for nothing.
He had checked the prince's history and there was nothing in it that would suggest he would make a bad king. Which meant, the fault was entirely on the queen for not wanting to leave the throne.
'Not only did she kill her husband, but she killed he son as well,' he thought. 'How could a woman do that?'
At the very least, she had to be mentally ill to make such a choice.
'It doesn't have anything to do with me,' he thought, but deep down he knew that he would have to help. He would feel guilty if he left right now, knowing he left a murderer on the throne for all the people in the country to suffer.
He sighed. All he could do was wait for the Queen to tell everyone she did it as he ordered her to and he could go back to his day.
While there wasn't necessarily anything for him to do, he still wanted to be there for the princess to practice her newly learned summoning skills.
The door opened and a few people walked in. Ning straightened up from his slouched position when he saw that it was the Captain and the vice-captain that walked in with a bunch of other soldiers.
"Cover up the windows," the captain ordered.
The soldiers quickly moved to pull back some very thick black curtains that completely blocked the light.
By the time they were done, it was impossible to tell if it was day or night in the room.
Ning wondered what they were doing when he heard a few clanks on the deck as a few pearls scattered around him.
Ning looked around him to see why they were doing what they were doing when he heard the captain speak.
"Good, he hasn't summoned anything," he said. The captain then pulled up and chair and sat close to the cage. "You summon anything, my men shoot you. Understood?"
Ning nodded. At the same time, he saw the pearls around the captain leave wisps of steam-like line that flew towards him.
'He's summoned something?' Ning understood. The pearls would only lose energy at such a quick speed if there was something else vacuum that they could fill.
This meant that the Captain was currently without a lot of his spiritual energy, which in turn meant he had summoned something.
Ning quickly used his Spiritual Analysis to see what it was and was surprised to see that he was in fact summoning something.
'Lie detecting skill huh?' he thought.
"What's your name?" the captain asked.
"Ning Ruogong," Ning replied without hesitation.
"Where are you from?" the captain asked.
"The Darius Kingdom."
The captain's eyes narrowed a bit. "Do you have any connection with the Shadow's Anarchy?" he asked.
"None," Ning said.
The captain sensed that he was telling the truth. "Did this 'Janean' girl really kill our prince? And is she from the Shadow's Anarchy?" the captain asked.
"Yes, she is from the Shadow's Anarchy, and she was hired to kill your prince and did kill him," Ning said.
"Do you know how she did it?" the captain asked.
"From what I heard, she used some sort of poison that would burn a person's skin while melting their lungs such that they would drown to death from their own blood," Ning answered.
The captain was surprised by how easily Ning was answering everything and how nothing he said had been false until now. He looked down at the spheres, but only the pearls next to him were losing light. The ones near Ning remained ever so bright.
"How do you know all this?" the captain asked.
"I heard it from somewhere," Ning said.
"Where?" the captain asked.
"I used a power to find the truth when you caught me this morning," Ning said.
The captain's face became weird at the surprisingly stupid-sounding answer, and yet, there were no lies in his words.
"What? What power? What did you summon?" the captain was surprised. Were there powers that could tell the truth to a person? Was there an omniscient beast out there that knew everything?
Ning decided to ignore the captain's question and instead told him. "I know who hired the killer too," he said.
The captain's eyes went wide. "Who?" he asked.
Ning looked around. "You want me to tell you here?" he asked.
The captain pushed back his intense curiosity and looked around at his men. "Everyone, out, now!" he ordered.
As the men were leaving, the captain made the vice-captain do the job of the soldiers and get ready to shoot as soon as he sensed any funny business.
Once everyone was gone, the captain turned around. "Tell me. Now!" he said.
Ning took a deep breath and told them. "It was the queen."
The captain's heart started beating faster from the sudden shock the information brought him. However, he pushed it down to look at Ning and try and figure out if he was lying at all.
There was not a single hint of a lie in his words.
"Dear god! Was it really the queen?" the captain couldn't help but show his shock on the outside.
Ning shrugged. "That's what it told me when I asked the question. You can try asking the queen herself if you ever meet her," he said.
"Don't worry about that," the captain said. "We will arrive at the shore any minute now. "I will take you to the queen and we will find out."
